When you stall, the next move is already there.
A Claude Code plugin for developers with ADHD. It reads the session, catches the moment work stops moving, and hands back one small move. Then it goes quiet.
Two lines, a whole session. Then silence. There is no dashboard to check.
ADHD is a performance disorder. You already know the next step.
The gap opens at the point of performance, the moment the task stalls. Every productivity app aims at knowledge: another planner, another list. Clutch aims at the moment you act.
It fires on zero movement, never on slowness. It never counts days. It never shames. When it is not sure it stays silent, because a wrong nudge is worse than none. A nag lays a brick you climb tomorrow before you can start.
Seven commands, and a layer that fires on its own.
v1.3 reads the moment and reaches for the right one, so you rarely type anything. Every command is still yours to call by name.
/clutch:smallest-moveNames one move you can finish in one sitting. Never a list, never the far side of the wall.
When a goal is too big to start.
/clutch:sprintA fixed 20-minute timebox on one shippable. The clock surfaces while you work.
When you need to just start.
/clutch:igniteOne challenge or speed-run frame before work you already understand.
When you dread the boring plumbing.
/clutch:triageAsks one question, then splits a missed task into a wall (recognition) or forgetting (a cue where you will see it).
When you cannot tell if you are stuck or you forgot.
/clutch:captureTakes a tangent in one line, then hands you back to the task. Pull it later; it never nags.
When a shiny idea pulls at you mid-task.
/clutch:statusReports which hooks fired and whether Clutch is alive in this repo.
When quiet might mean broken.
/clutch:retraceRebuilds a fast session from git, not the transcript: what landed, what is in flight, what to be aware of, one grounding move.
When the session ran fast and you lost the thread.
You rarely type a command. It reaches first.
Two layers watch the two places a stall shows up: your git state, and what you are saying. When the read is clear, the right mechanism is already there.
A per-turn heartbeat keeps that reading alive, so it does not fade halfway through a long session. The last row is the one that matters: when it is not sure, it says nothing. Being read never turns into being watched, because a wrong nudge costs more than a missed one. Two mechanisms stay on manual for the same reason, triage asks before it guesses, and capture never surfaces on its own.
The moment you run one.
ADHD runs on curiosity, not discipline. Each command hands you something your brain actually wants to reach for.
Sprint
You name one thing. Just one. Then a clock walks into the room with you, and twenty minutes has a finish line you can see from where you are standing. Starting small is finally allowed, and that is the whole trick.
Ignite
The dread was never about the work. It was about the start. Ignite does not tell you to try harder. It hands you a smaller, stranger way in: a game, a number to beat, a dare your brain wants to take.
Capture
The shiny thing does not die and the thread does not snap. One line catches the idea, and you are already back on the test, mid-breath. Nothing lost, nothing chased. You decide later, on your terms.
Retrace
You ran fast and the pile is a blur. Retrace reads what actually happened from git, never the transcript, and hands it back as a map: what landed, what is still open, what to watch. A wall of unclear changes becomes one thing you can re-enter.
A Tuesday, start to finish.
- You open the project cold.The thread greets you: "Last landed 'parser runs clean'. Resume: finish the change in parser.py."
- The goal feels huge.Clutch reads the stall and hands back one step, or you call
/clutch:smallest-move. One named move, nothing else. - Now the boring tests.
/clutch:ignitereframes it: how few lines can this take. You start. - A tangent pulls at you.
/clutch:capturetakes it in one line. You are back on the test in the same breath. - A test goes red. Your hand moves to
git reset --hard.One beat: the heat is a spike, not a verdict. You bank what still works instead. - You commit.The bell: "Landed: 'parser handles empty input'. Smallest next move: one commit." Then it goes quiet.
Install it on a work repo without a second thought.
.clutch/ that adds itself to git's ignore list.Two commands. Zero configuration.
/plugin marketplace add yuvalraz/clutch /plugin install clutch@clutch
The opinions are the product. Source at github.com/yuvalraz/clutch.
New, and built by someone it is built for.
I have ADHD and built it in public, and it runs in its own development sessions, so I am the first it bites. Some things stay manual on purpose: it asks before it classifies a wall, because guessing wrong there does real harm.
The numbers are real: 13 mechanisms, and one 7-source canon of ADHD research baked into the wording, not read at runtime (Barkley, Brown, Dodson, Mahan, Hallowell). Built with AI assistance.